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Safia Shah

Goodreads Author

Born

in The United Kingdom

Website

http://carnabysuninvited.com/index.php

Twitter

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Genre

Nonfiction, Children's Books, Contemporary

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Safia Shah is a British writer, editor and television news producer, following in the footsteps of her distinguished Anglo-Afghan Indian family. She is the daughter of the well-known author and teacher in the Sufi mystical tradition, Idries Shah; the twin sister of writer, journalist and documentary maker, Tahir Shah, and the younger sister of the writer, reporter and documentary filmmaker, Saira Shah.

Educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, England, Shah went on to study at the Sorbonne and University of Grenoble in France. She has worked for the London-based Institute for Cultural Research as a research assistant and editor and worked with Afghan refugees in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, as well as reporting on social issue Safia Shah is a British writer, editor and television news producer, following in the footsteps of her distinguished Anglo-Afghan Indian family. She is the daughter of the well-known author and teacher in the Sufi mystical tradition, Idries Shah; the twin sister of writer, journalist and documentary maker, Tahir Shah, and the younger sister of the writer, reporter and documentary filmmaker, Saira Shah.

Educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, England, Shah went on to study at the Sorbonne and University of Grenoble in France. She has worked for the London-based Institute for Cultural Research as a research assistant and editor and worked with Afghan refugees in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, as well as reporting on social issues there. She is also a freelance writer and has edited for the Institute of Health Sciences.

Safia Shah's most notable work is Afghan Caravan, a miscellany which was collected by Idries Shah and edited by her. Afghan Caravan was chosen by Nobel prize-winning writer Doris Lessing as the Daily Telegraph "Book of the Year" where it was described as "a cornucopia a mix of magical tales, nuggets from history... an Aladdin's cave of a book" and in Literary Review as "a great deal of fascinating material... It is a book to be dipped into, excellent bedside reading."

‘Brown Bag’ is a short story included in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology 4, and has been regarded as "A short and sharp and very English story from Casablanca-based Safia Shah, that captures something of the zeitgeist of our modern, Internet-focused age. The storytelling is adequate throughout, but the real triumph comes right at the end, where it’s sudden and completely unexpected." It describes the main character's reflections on her mother’s passing, as well as on incidental memories from the past. The 20 stories collected in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology 4 were selected from more than 2,000 entries for the 2011 Bristol Short Story Prize.

Shah is about to release "Carnaby Street’s Great Uninvited: Around the World in 80 Years".

Around The World in 80 Years is the first in a series of Carnaby books and study notes, which are designed to help kids take a break from texting and tweets and have fun with the spoken word. The campaign to Bring Words Back To Life is backed by a website aimed at children, parents and teachers (www.carnabysuninvited.com). Through reading the book and accessing the website children, their parents and teachers can join in the fun, trade favourite words and might possibly even learn to knit with pencils. Fear not, the link between knitting and words becomes apparent inside the pages of Carnaby’s wacky world. ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 51 ratings · 8 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Afghan Caravan by Safia Shah (Goodreads Author), Safia Shah Thomas (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carnaby Street's Great Uninvited: Around the World in 80 Years 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A is For Anonymuncle. The Brabbler's Endangered ABC 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As Clear As Mud Volume 1. The Brabbler's Guide to Idioms 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twice Sifted. Six Short Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As Clear As Mud Volume 2. The Brabbler's Guide to Idioms 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carnaby Street's Great Uninvited: Around the World in 80 Years by Safia Shah (2013-10-23) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars